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Okay Temiz
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In Istanbul in 1939, Okay Temiz’s mother not only gave him the gift of life, but the gift of music. He has since dedicated his life to sharing that gift with the world. Music has been playing in his DNA since birth, being inspired as a child by his mother, Naciye Temiz, who was classically trained in Turkish music. With her encouragement, he studied percussion and tympani at the State Conservatoire of Classical Music in Ankara. On launching his professional musical career in 1955, Okay continued his studies at the Tophane Art Institute. where he acquired the musical knowledge and skills that enabled him to create his own drums and percussion instruments with unique sounds and features. He now has a wide collection of self-made ethnic and electronic instruments, including a hand-made copper drum kit, the Magic Pyramid and Artemiz, which he constructed using camel and sheep bells. These add a unique and transformative quality to his accomplished musicianship and distinctive style.
Music For Turkish Theatre
By Don Cherry
Label: Caz Plak
Released: 2024
Track listing: Calculating Empires; Okay's 5/8; Fortune And Men's Eyes; 1969 - Take 1; 1969; Near East; Naive - Take 1;
Naive; Istanbul
Drummer of Two Worlds
By Okay Temiz
Label: Caz Plak
Released: 2024
Track listing: Eastern Breeze; Penguin; Galaxy Nine; Şavşat Barı; Repercussions; Drummer of Two Worlds; Sipsi; Ocean
Roller; Fantasia Drive.
The Jazz Worlds of James Baldwin - Part 1
by Ludovico Granvassu
The centennial of writer and civil rights activist James Baldwin offers a great opportunity to look into the call and response which has been going on, for decades, between Baldwin's inner world and the world of jazz. Here is a set featuring music inspired by his writings and tunes by musicians we was connected with.
Caz Plak To Release Don Cherry & Okay Temiz's Music For Turkish Theatre On Vinyl
The fourth chapter in the partnership between Turkish jazz percussionist Okay Temiz and Istanbul-based record label Caz Plak is a special release that is seeing light 54 years after its inception. Music For Turkish Theatre, the soundtrack composed by Don Cherry and Temiz and commissioned by the revered novelist and civil rights activist James Baldwin for ...
Caz Plak Reissues Okay Temiz's Landmark Album, 'Drummer Of Two Worlds'
One of Turkish Jazz's most sought-after and sampled records is coming back to life. Caz Plak's partnership with notable jazz drummer Okay Temiz reaches a third stage with the long-awaited reissue of his landmark album, Drummer of Two Worlds. Initially released in Turkey, Scandinavia, and the United States in 1980, Caz Plak's modern reintroduction of a ...
The ORTF Recordings Paris 1971
By Don Cherry
Label: Caz Plak
Released: 2023
Track listing: 1. Okay’s (Okay Temi̇x’s);
2. Dollar’s (Dollar Brand’s).
Okay Temiz: Okay Temiz’s Oriental Wind Live at Montreux Jazz Festival 1982
by Matthew Hutchison
The six-plus decade resume of Okay Temiz is a landscape snapshot of someone who made the most of their professional opportunities from different angles. A sliver of the performance side has brought him partnerships with American jazz giants Don Cherry, Dexter Gordon, Art Taylor and Clark Terry, along with an array of established European and South ...
Okay Temiz’s Oriental Wind Live at Montreux Jazz Festival 1982
By Okay Temiz
Label: Caz Plak
Released: 2022
Track listing: Surf On Nile; Moon; North Of Map; Saxophone In A Tunnel.
Skopje Jazz Festival 2021 Tempting As Always
by Ziga Koritnik
A collection of photos from the Skopje jazz festival in Skopje, North Macedonia from October 20, 2021 to October 24, 2021 featuring Mats Gustafsson, Linda May Han Oh and Fabian Almazan, Greg Ward, Ziv Ravitz, Tania Giannouli, Andreas Polyzogopoulos, Jakob Bro, Mark Turner, Jorge Rossy, Thomas Morgan, Yordan Kostov, Yaping Wang, L.U.M.E., Moor Mother, Dudu Kouate, ...
